Projects

STORRE

High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage by Reversible Thermochemical Reaction

 
Title of Programme
 FP7-ENERGY-2011-1
Financing Code for Project
 282677
Project start year - end year 2012 - 2015
Financing organisation
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION-FP7- Collaborative project
Coordinator Commissariat a l' Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA-INES)
Other partners
Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory (APTL)
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientificas (CSIC)
 
Budget / APTL Budget 3,085,084 € / 540,000 €
Scientific Manager / Project researcher
A.G. Konstandopoulos / S. Lorentzou
Project website n/a
Summary
StoRRe concerns the area of thermal energy storage by chemical reaction for concentrated solar powerplants (CSP). The objective of the project is to develop a new and promising solution for the heat storage with thefollowing characteristics:
  • Mid-term (24h to few days) up to long-term (several months) heat storage
  • High storage density (300-500 kWh?m3)
  • High temperatures (300-550°C), which are representative of the CSP plants with cylinder-parabolic or CLFR technologies.
The objective of the StoRRe project is to develop and quantify, at a pilot scale, the interest of a thermochemicalstorage solution with the dehydration of Ca(OH)2, and to study the development opportunity at the pre-industrialscale. The consortium is composed of a major industrial manufacturer involved in the CSP business, a SME developping innovative solar and biomass technologies and three research centres.